Quotes from Books

The body keeps the score.

Trauma is not just what happens to you, but what happens inside you.

Healing requires the courage to face the truth of our experiences.

Please, sir, I want some more.

The law is a ass, an idiot.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

The horror! The horror!

We live in the flicker—may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling. But darkness was here yesterday.

Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.

I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.

The beginning of all wisdom is to know your own worth.

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.

The only way to deal with a thing is to face it.

I think I can see a way out of the darkness.

We are all different, and we must find a way to accept ourselves.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.

It is not what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony.

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

A good character, when established, cannot be overthrown.

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

The man who is afraid of the future is a man who has no future.

It is a great advantage to be able to read, but it is also a great disadvantage.

The most interesting thing about a man is the way he behaves when he is alone.

We are all human beings, and we all deserve to be treated as such.

Sometimes you have to fight for what you believe in.

Love knows no boundaries, not even those society has set.

Fifteen men on the dead man's chest—Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

To be good is to be unoriginal.

I love animals, and I love the natural world.

We are all in the same boat, as far as the complexity of life is concerned.

The future of our planet depends on how we treat animals.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

It's never too late to be what you might have been.

You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.

A little magic can take you a long way.

Life is full of surprises, especially if you dare to dream!

Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

The thing about life is, you don’t have to be perfect to be happy.

You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

But the past is never dead. It's not even past.

We are all made of stardust and stories.

In the end, we all just want to be remembered.

With great power, comes great responsibility.

You can’t choose your family, but you can choose your friends.

The only way to stay safe is to be brave.

With great power, comes great responsibility.

It’s okay if you’re a little scared. Just don’t let fear stop you.

The truth is always easier to bear than a lie.

You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you.

I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable.

Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.

The secret of happiness is to be grateful for all that you have.

You can’t choose your family, but you can choose your friends.

It’s not easy being a hero, especially when you are a demigod.

The world is a dangerous place, and sometimes you have to fight for what you believe in.